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katherine_b at 10:30pm on 22/11/2009 under 2008-10 specials, dw, transcript, waters of mars
katherine_b at 10:30pm on 22/11/2009 under 2008-10 specials, dw, transcript, waters of marsPreviously on Mars...
[In the medical dome, Yuri and Ed are watching Maggie. Adelaide and the Doctor burst in.]
AB: Has that door got a Hardinger seal?
EG: No, just basic.
AB: Well, the moment she heads for the door, we evacuate, got that?
EG [turning to medical monitor]: Pulse is low. Electrical activity in the brain seems to be going haywire.
AB: Can she talk?
YK: I don’t know. She was talking before we noted the change, but…
AB: Maggie, can you hear me? Do you know who I am? [Maggie turns to look at the Doctor] Your commanding officer, Captain Adelaide Brooke. Can you tell me what happened?
[The Doctor begins speaking in an alien tongue. Maggie stares at him, even more wide-eyed than before.]
EG: What language is that?
D: Ancient North Martian.
AB: Don’t be ridiculous.
EG: It’s like she recognised it.
D: And her eyes are different. They’re clear, like she’s closer to human.
EG [mumbles]: Not close enough for me.
D: Where d’you get your water from?
AB: The ice field. That’s why we chose the crater – we’re on top of an underground glacier.
D [nodding]: Tons of water. Marvellous.
YK: But every single drop is filtered, it’s clean, it’s safe.
D [nodding at Maggie]: Looks like it, yeah.
EG: If something was frozen down there... A viral life form, held in the ice for all those years.
D: Look at her mouth. It’s all blackened, like some sort of fission. This thing, whatever it is, doesn’t just hide in water, it creates water. [to Maggie] Tell me what you want.
KY: She was looking at the screen – at Earth. She wanted Earth. A world full of water.
EG: Captain, with me.
[Adelaide and Ed cross to the other side of the room. The Doctor glances one more time at Maggie and then moves in an attempt to hear what’s being said. Ed looks at him suspiciously before speaking.]
EG: I’m sorry, but it’s an unknown infection and it’s spreading. That demands an action procedure one.
AB: You think I don’t know that?
EG [coldly]: I think you need reminding.
AB [tiredly, nodding]: Yeah.
EG: Well, at least I’m good for something.
AB [lightly]: Now and again.
EG [half-smile]: That’s almost a compliment. Things must be serious.
[They exchange smiles.]
D [coming over]: Sorry, sorry. Action one, that means evacuation, yeah?
AB [nodding]: We’re going home. This is Captain Brooke. I am declaring action one. Repeat, all crew members this is action one with immediate effect. [an alarm begins to sound] Evacuate the base.
[In the control room, everyone springs into action.]
SE: Outstall central computer. Mia, strip the cargo down to essentials. Roman, on your feet!
RG [sitting on the floor next to Gadget]: But we came all this way…
G: Gadget-gadget.
SE: And you can kiss that robot goodbye. It’s too heavy. Now shove it in storage and hurry up!
AB: Steffi, what’s your estimate on shuttle viability?
SE: A nine-month flight – it’ll take us at least three hours to load up everything we need.
AB: You’ve got twenty minutes! And give me a report on Andy and Tarak.
ST [looking at screen that shows Andy and Tarak staring at the camera]: Still in the bio-dome tunnel. They’re just standing there, like they’re waiting.
AB: Keep an eye on them. And make that twenty minutes fifteen.
[The Doctor is standing close to the room where Maggie is confined. His expression suggests that this process is a huge mistake.]
AB: Ed, fire up the shuttle. Go straight to ignition status.
EG: Doing it now!
YK: What about Maggie?
AB: She stays behind. We’ve got no way to contain her on board. Close this place down. I want the power directed to the shuttle.
D: Of course, the only problem is…
AB: Thank you, Doctor. Your space suit will be returned and good luck to you.
D: The problem is, this thing is clever. It didn’t infect the birds or the insects in the bio-dome. It chose the humans. You were chosen. And I told you, Adelaide, water can wait. Tarak changed straight away, but when Maggie was infected, it stayed hidden inside her. No doubt so it could infiltrate the central dome. Which means…
AB: Any one of us could already be infected. [pause] We’ve all been drinking the same water.
D: And if you take that back to Earth… One drop. Just one drop.
AB [desperate]: But… we’re only presuming infection. If we can find out how this thing got through – when it got through… [moving away from the Doctor] Yuri, continue with action one. I’m going to inspect the ice field.
D [as Yuri continues to pack]: Right, I should leave. Finally, I should leave. Yuri, me old mate, no point me seeing the ice field. [softly] No point at all. No.
[Leaning against the cupboard, though, the Doctor is clearly uncomfortable at the thought of leaving and is making no effort to go, although he is obviously trying to talk himself into it mentally. He bangs his head back against the cupboard twice before running out of the room.]
D: Adelaide!
[He runs after her in the tunnel, catching up to her.]
D [lightly]: All I’m saying is – bikes! Little fold-away bikes. Don’t weigh a thing.
[Yuri wheels a trolley out of the room and then stops and looks back at Maggie, who is watching him with a pleading look on her face.]
YK: I’m sorry.
[He presses a button that cuts off power in the room, leaving it bathed in a red glow. The door seals and then Maggie moves towards the door of the glassed-in isolation room. She fuses the lock and the door sparks.]
RG: Even if she passes the medical dome, she’s never get past the Hardinger seal at this end, right?
EG: So we keep saying.
[They watch as the door continues to spark, and then the screen goes back.]
EG: Camera’s down. [pause] We’ve lost her.
[In the red-lit room, the door of the isolation chamber opens and Maggie steps out into the infirmary.
She screams, a horrible wail, and Andy and Tarak look down from the camera and turn their heads in unison, as if in response. They turn and begin walking back down the corridor towards the bio-dome.
The Doctor and Adelaide are crossing an open space. They end up looking down on a huge sheet of ice]
D: They tell legends of Mars from long ago. The fine and noble race that built an empire out of snow. The ice warriors.
AB: I haven’t got time for stories.
D: Perhaps they found something down there. Used their might and their wisdom to freeze it.
AB: Doctor, we need to find any sort of change in the water process. We’ve got to date the infection.
[The Doctor begins tapping in to the computer.]
Computer: Access denied.
[He continues tapping things on the screen. Adelaide glances at him from time to time.]
AB: You don’t look like a coward. But all you've wanted to do is leave. [sideways glance] You know so much about us.
D [trying to be casual]: Well, you’re famous.
AB [wary]: It’s like you know more.
D [gives in, speaking with difficulty, trying to find a way to say things without giving it all away]: This moment, this precise moment in time, it’s like – I mean, it’s only a theory, what do I know, but, I think certain moments in time are fixed. Tiny, precious moments. Anything else is in flux. Anything can happen. But those certain moments, they have to stand. This base on Mars, with you, Adelaide Brooke – this is one vital moment. What happens here must always happen.
AB [tense, frightened, but covering it]: Which is what?
D [shakes head]: I don’t know.
[There’s an uncomfortable pause. The Doctor clearly wants to give her some form of comfort.]
D: I think something wonderful happens. Something that started fifty years ago – isn’t that right?
AB [turns to him, really scared now]: I’ve never told anyone that.
D: You told your daughter. And maybe, one day, she tells the story to her daughter. Of the day the Earth was stolen and moved across the Universe. And you…
[Adelaide stares at him. How does he know? And yet he clearly does and she’s willing to go on and tell him more.]
AB: I saw the Daleks. [pause] We looked up. The sky had changed. Everyone was running and screaming. And my father took hold of me…
[Flashback, a man takes a girl into a bedroom. He kneels in front of her and she stares into his eyes.]
Adelaide’s father: Stay here. Don’t move. I’ve got to go out. I’m going to find your mother. But I’m coming back. I promise you. I’m coming back…
[He kisses her forehead, strokes her hair and then leaves the room, leaving Adelaide kneeling on a white rug. She stands up.]
AB: I never saw him again. Nor my mother. They were never found. But out on the streets, there was panic and burning. I went to the window…
[She crosses to a window in the ceiling of what is presumably an attic room, where a Dalek can be seen descending.]
AB: And there, in the sky, I saw it, Doctor. And it saw me.
[The Dalek’s eye-stalk swivels around to face Adelaide.]
AB: It stared at me. It looked right into me. And then…
[The Dalek suddenly turns around and flies away.]
AB [half-smiling, tears in her eyes]: It simply went away. I knew, that night, I knew I would follow it.
D: But not for revenge?
AB: What would be the point of that?
D [smiling – she’s like him!]: That’s what makes you remarkable. And that’s how you create history.
AB: What d’you mean?
D [moves to face her]: Imagine it, Adelaide. If you began a journey that takes the human race all the way out to the stars. It begins with you. And then your granddaughter – you inspire her! So that, in thirty years, Susie Fontana Brooke is the pilot of the first light speed ship to Proxima Centauri.
[A flash shows another article, this time with the heading ‘Susie Fontana Brooke: First Lightspeed Ship – Proud Heritage.’]
D: And then everywhere, with her children and her children’s children forging away to the Dragon Star, the Celestial Belt of the Winter Queen, the Map of the Water Snake Wormholes. One day a Brooke will even fall in love with a Tandonian prince, and that’s the start of a whole new species. But everything all starts with you, Adelaide. From fifty years ago to right here, today. [softly] Imagine.
AB [sad and suspicious]: Who are you? [pause] Why are you telling me this? Doctor? Why tell me?
D [pained whisper]: As consolation.
[The computer suddenly springs into life, putting up a profile of one of the crew members.]
AB: Andy Stone. He logged on yesterday.
AS [video footage]: Maintenance log, 21:20, November 20, 2059. Number three water filter’s bust. [showing filter] And guess what. The spares they sent don’t fit. What a surprise. Over and out.
D: A filter! One tiny little filter and then the Flood!
AB: But that means the infection arrived today and the water’s only cycled out of the bio-dome after a week. The rest of us can’t be infected. We can leave! [on comm.] Ed, we’re clean, how’re we doing?
EG: Shuttle’s active, stage one.
[The lights on the shuttle support grid slowly begin to light up.]
EG: I haven’t got time to convey the protein packs. If you want food, you’re going to have to carry it by hand. Start loading – right now!
[The remaining crew – Mia, Yuri, Roman and Steffi – scatter on the order, carrying large containers filled with items to the trolleys.
Meanwhile Adelaide and the Doctor are running down the hallway back to the control room.]
AB: You were right, Doctor.
D: What about?
AB [smiles]: Bikes!
[The Doctor chuckles. As everyone in the control room packs, Adelaide hands the Doctor his suit.]
AB: Now get to your ship. I’m saving my people, you save yourself. I know what this moment is – it’s the moment we escape. Now get out!
[The Doctor, clutching his suit, stares after her, pain on his face as he watches the crew packing, knowing the truth about what is actually happening, what this moment really is. There is an undercurrent of conversation from the crew.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the base, Tarak is climbing a ladder, water spilling from his mouth. He and Andy end up on top of the building. An alarm is sounding, getting louder every few seconds. The Doctor’s eyes travel from the computers to the ceiling. He says nothing, makes no effort to alert them to what’s happening.
As preparations for packing continue, with efforts being made to lighten the ship as much as possible, Andy and Tarak drop to their knees and place their hands on the ground, which is actually the roof of the building. Finally Adelaide notices the alarm.]
AB: What the hell is noise? Mia, you lot, shut up!
EG: It’s the module sensors. Exterior twelve. The cameras are down, but there’s pressure on top of the module. Two signals, right above us.
SE [frightened, voice shaking]: That means…
[She looks up. Cut to the Doctor, also eying the ceiling.]
SE: …they’re on the roof?
[Water begins seeping from beneath Andy and Tarak’s hands in an ever-increasing pool. It pours from their mouths like hoses.]
RG: How did they get inside the dome?
EG: They used the maintenance shafts.
MB: The shaft’s open and they haven’t got spacesuits.
[Mia and Yuri take hands.]
EG: They breathe water.
[The Doctor is simply standing there, looking almost as devastated as when he had to take Donna’s memories away.]
SE: They’ll freeze.
YK: They’ve got that internal fission.
MB: We’re safe. They can’t get through, can they?
[There is a creaking, grinding sound, as if a material is being broken down. No one speaks.]
MB: Can they?
[Water is leaking through the various ventilation pipes.]
RG [shaking his head]: This place is airtight.
SE: Can they get through? Ed? Can they get through?
EG: I don’t know. The water itself is immotile, but it has some sort of persistence.
AB: Everyone, listen to me. That’s ten feet of steel combination up there. We’ll need all the protein packs or we’re gonna starve. Now keep working. Roman [taps his arm] watch the ceiling. Ed, get to the shuttle. Fire it up.
EG: I can carry more than this lot can!
AB [yells]: That’s an order!
EG [half-grin]: Captain!
[The Doctor has a flash to the newspaper article about the destruction of the base in a nuclear blast.
He simply stands there and watches these people trying to work out ways to survive. No one looks at him, except for one final glance from Adelaide as he finally convinces himself to leave. He doesn’t even turn back for a last look.
Ed runs down the hallway towards the shuttle. The Doctor, now in the spacesuit, steps into the airlock to leave. He presses the button to have the door opened.]
Computer: Access denied. Access denied.
[Adelaide suddenly speaks through the comm. in his suit]
AB: Tell me what happens.
D: I don’t know.
AB: Yes, you do. Now tell me.
D: You should be with the others.
AB [angry]: Tell me!
[He remains silent. Adelaide looks down for a moment, making a decision.]
AB: I could ramp up the pressure in that airlock and crush you.
D: Except you won’t. You could have shot Andy Stone, but you didn’t. I loved you for that. [pause] Imagine…
[There’s a terrible, painful moment of silence. The Doctor is fighting within himself as to how much to tell her, and Adelaide is waiting for him to continue. He finally gives in.]
D: Imagine you knew something. Imagine you found yourself somewhere – I don’t know, Pompeii! Imagine you were in Pompeii…
AB: What the hell’s that got to do with it?
D: And you try to save them, but in doing so, you make it happen.
[He looks so tired and so sorry.]
D: Anything I do just makes it happen.
[The door behind Adelaide opens.]
SE: Captain, we need you right now!
[She leaves again without Adelaide getting out of her chair.]
AB: I’m still here.
[The Doctor breathes deeply and briefly closes his eyes.]
D [turns to camera]: You’re taking action one.
[She changes the view on the screen so that, rather than four different views as it was before, his face fills it, staring at her.]
D: There are four more standard action procedures, and action five is…
AB: Detonation.
D: The final option. The nuclear device at the heart of the central dome. Today, on the 21st of November, 2059, Captain Brooke activates that device, taking the base and all her crew members with her. No one ever knows why. But you were saving Earth. That’s what inspires your granddaughter. She takes your people out into the galaxy because you die on Mars. You die today. She flies out there, like she’s trying to meet you.
AB [shocked, horrified, terrified, tears in her eyes, her voice a whisper]: I won’t die. [determined, always in control of her destiny] I will not!
D: But your death creates the future.
[There’s a long, painful pause.]
AB: Help me.
[The Doctor remains silent.]
AB: Why won’t you help, Doctor, if you know all this, why can’t you change it?
D [shaking his head]: I can’t. Adelaide, I’m aware. I can’t.
AB [speaking over him]: Why can’t you find a way? Tell me. I don’t know.
D [silencing her]: I’m sorry, but I can’t! Sometimes I can. Sometimes I do. Most times I can save someone or anyone. But not you. You’ve wondered all your life why that Dalek spared you. I think it knew! Your death is fixed in time. Forever. And that’s right.
AB: You die, too?
D: No.
AB: What’s gonna save you?
D: Captain Adelaide Brooke.
[She stares at him, understanding, but so angry at the choice she has to make, and finally presses the button that will release him from the airlock.]
AB [softly]: Damn you.
RG: Water! We’ve got water
MB: Get back! Get away! Get back! Captain! Don’t touch it! Get away! Don’t let it touch you!
[Adelaide runs into the room to find water running from the ceiling.]
AB: Everyone, we’re abandoning this section. Get to the shuttle. Yuri, lead the way. Section B corridor now!
[Yuri opens a door, only to find water pouring down on the supplies.]
AB: Close it!
SE: Yuri! Lock the door behind you! Did it touch you? Yuri! Did the water touch you?
YK: I’m clean! I’m dry!
AB: Everyone, section B is out! Listen to me, take every pack that you can. We’ll go around by Section F.
[The Doctor is able to hear all of this by the comm. that Adelaide left connected.]
SE: Transferring oxygen stations to Section F. Mia, you take the red-line stocks.
AB: And hurry up!
[Suddenly one of the panels in the ceiling gives, allowing a huge wall of water to fall, which block Steffi off from the rest of the crew.
YK: Steffi, komm!
MB: Steffi, get back!
AB: Get back!
[The Doctor hears the sound and closes his eyes, fighting his urge to stay and to leave.
The water continues to move, pushing Steffi back into the small communications room.]
RG: Shut the door! Close the door!
[Steffi closes the door, trapping herself in the room.]
AB: Steffi, we’ll come and get you, okay?
RG: We’ll come get you! Steffi!
SE [crying and screaming]: Captain!
AB: We’ll open the exit panel, we’ll get you out from the back!
SE [screaming]: Captain, it’s inside!
AB: Steffi!
MB: Steffi! Get back!
AB: Steffi! I’m coming! Hold on!
[The Doctor opens the external door and walks out of the base, still able to hear what is happening inside.]
RG: The exit panel’s fused, Captain. We can’t open it.
[Steffi gives a shuddering scream.]
YK: We can’t get through!
SE [half-screaming]: Don't, please, I can't move.
[The Doctor walks away. Steffi, pressed up against the screen, activates the communication panel to show footage of her daughter.]
Lisette Ehrlich: Hallo, Mutti! Hallo, Mars! [turns to her sister] Ulrike, sag’ hallo. Pappi sagt er fährt uns mit über das Wochenende… [Translation: Hello, Mummy, hello Mars. Ulrike, say hello. Dad says he’s going to take us away over the weekend…]
[As Steffi watches, the water finally breaks in and begins soaking into her. She breaks down in tears, sobbing helplessly as her daughter continues to speak.
The Doctor listens to the child’s messages as he walks away.]
AB: Steffi! Can you hear me?
[Steffi is convulsing, just as the others did.]
MB: Oh, my God!
[The Doctor continues to walk away.]
AB: Out, get out.
[Steffi, converted by the Flood, steps out of the communications chamber.]
AB: Ed, we’re going round the long way. How’re we doing?
EG: All systems are live 100%, not a single delay. Don’t you worry, Captain, we are gonna fly!
[The jets of the shuttle fire up as the Doctor walks away from Bowie Base One.]
AB: We need air in Section F right now, all of you!
YK: Locking chamber three. Locking chamber four.
RG: Gate five is open! Gate six is open!
[Roman walks into a room and looks up at the ceiling, just as a drop falls down, hitting his cheek just below his eye, like a tear.]
AB: Roman, come on, with me!
RG: You better go.
AB: Don’t just stand there, move!
RG: You really better go without me. I’m sorry, Captain. [nodding shakily, just on the verge of tears] One drop.
[The Doctor closes his eyes in pain. Roman begins convulsing.]
MB: Roman! Roman!
[Yuri grabs her and drags her away as Adelaide watches, stony-faced.
The Doctor continues to walk.]
YK: Leave him! Come on!
MB: We can’t just leave him!
YK: Come on!
MB: Let me go! Roman!
YK: I'm so sorry.
[Adelaide turns away and follows the others.
On the shuttle, Ed is getting things ready when a door suddenly opens. He reaches out to press a button as Maggie appears below him. She sprays a jet of water up through the opening, soaking him before the wall can close.]
EG [in pain]: Captain, the shuttle is down.
AB: What the hell do you mean?
EG: Compromised. It was Maggie.
AB: Get out of there!
EG [grunting]: Too late. They want this ship to get to Earth. Got no choice. [presses destruct sequence] Hated it, Adelaide! Oh, this bloody job! Never gave me a chance. [reaching for button] You never could forgive me.
[Ed’s eyes have changed to white.]
EG [with a massive effort]: See you later.
[He presses the button and the shuttle and stand explode in a fireball. The ground shakes, throwing Mia, Yuri and Adelaide to the floor. The Doctor is thrown forward by the force of the blast. Air is sucked out of the building, fuelling the blast.]
YK: We’re losing oxygen! The hull is broken!
[The Doctor is lying on the ground, surrounded by flaming debris from the shuttle. Everything seems to be happening in slow motion.]
Flashback to his words to Martha in Gridlock: I’m not just a Time Lord; I’m the last of the Time Lords.
[He stands amid the fire.]
dFlashback to his words to Donna in The Doctor’s Daughter: It’ll never come back. Not now.
Flashback to his words to Rose in Doomsday: Time Lord, TARDIS, same old life. Last of the Time Lords.
Flashback to his words in Rise of the Cybermen: When they died, took it all with them. When the walls of reality closed, the worlds were sealed.
Flashback to his words to Donna in The Doctor’s Daughter: Gone forever.
Flashback to his words to Rose in Doomsday: Time Lords kept their eye on everything.
Flashback to his words to Donna in The Doctor’s Daughter: Only, it’s gone now, all of it.
Flashback to his words to Martha in Utopia: But they died, the Time Lords. All of them, they died.
Flashback to his words to Martha in Smith and Jones: I’m the last of the Time Lords.
[He walks towards the base. He steps in through the airlock, which glows blue around him, having removed his helmet.
He strides in as if he owns the place.]
D [throwing a tube to her]: Mia, take this sealant, fix that leak! Yuri, open emergency oxygen. Adelaide [offering hand to her] don’t just sit there!
[As he pulls her to her feet, Mia fixes the leak and the room becomes quieter without the rushing air.]
D: That’s better! The dome’s still got integrity. Ten feet of steel combination, made in Liverpool, magnificent workmanship!
AB: It can’t be stopped! Don’t die with us!
D [triumphant, verging on crazy]: No, ‘cos someone told me just recently, they said I was going to die. They said ‘he will knock four times’. And I think I know what that means, and it doesn’t mean right here, right now, ‘cos I don’t hear anyone knocking, do you?
[As if in reply, there is a loud knock on the door. The Doctor steps back, clearly frightened, as a second and then a third knock sounds. He looks around to see Andy on the other side of the door. By the last knock, though, the Doctor has made up his mind.]
D: Three knocks is all you’re getting!
[He turns to the computer system and sends power through the door, electrocuting Andy before he can knock again.]
D: Water and electricity – bad mix! Now then what else have we got?
[Mia is looking anxious, Yuri is very happy.]
AB: But there’s no way to fight them!
D: Heat! They use water – we can use heat! Works against the ice warriors, works against the Flood. Ramp up the environment controls and steam them!
AB [trying to stop him]: But you said we die!
[The room is suddenly jolted and everyone nearly loses their footing.]
AB: For the future, for the human race!
D [hurriedly, perhaps if he says this with enough authority, it will be true]: Yes, but there are laws. There are laws of time. Once upon a time there were people in charge of those laws, but they died. They all died. [hysterical with grief, rage and the desire to be able to change this situation the way he wants to] Do you know who that leaves? - ME! It's taken me all these years to realise the laws of time are mine! AND THEY WILL OBEY ME!
[An explosion throws him to the floor. Alarms sound and, as things fall to the floor, Adelaide dashes to a computer.]
AB: Environment controls are down. Sorry, Doctor, it looks like history’s got other ideas!
D [desperate]: I’m not beaten yet. I’ll go outside! Thermic heat regulator! [picks up his helmet only to find that pieces have been broken out of it and it’s no longer usable; he throws it away in fury] Not beaten, not beaten! You've got space suits. In the next section!
[He ducks into the hallway, to find water pouring down. He runs back into the room.]
D [furious and crazed]: We’re not just fighting the Flood. We’re fighting time itself, and I’m gonna win!
[Maggie is standing above the frozen ice. She lets out a high-pitched moan that causes the ice to begin to crack.]
YK [typing furiously]: Something is happening to the glacier!
D [rubbing head]: Think, think, think, think – what have we got? Not enough oxygen. [opens container] Protein packs – useless! Glacier, glacier mints, minty, monty, molto bene, bonny, bish bash – aargh! Look, look, look at the room! Section H – what’s in Section H?
[No one answers.]
D [screaming]: Anyone?!
YK: Nothing – it is just storage!
D: Storing what?
YK: I don’t know – the weather spikes, the robot, atom clamps…
D [opening cupboard]: Atom clamps? Atom clamps! Who needs atom clamps! I have a funny robot!
[He tears off the cupboard door to reveal Gadget.]
G: Gadget-gadget.
[Maggie continues to wail as the ice breaks.
The Doctor fixes his TARDIS key to Gadget’s hand.]
D: You take that – good boy!
G: Gadget-gadget.
[He puts on the auto gloves and prepares to activate Gadget, even as the room continues to crumble around them.]
D: Off we go then!
G: Gadget-gadget.
[Adelaide rolls her eyes as Gadget begins to move and turns to the computer, preparing to activate action five. Gadget trundles slowly through the water.]
D [waving arms]: Come on, come on!
Computer: Implementing Captain’s protocol.
D: Adelaide! What are you doing?
MB: Action five?
D [warningly]: If I have to fight you as well, then I will!
Computer: Nuclear device now active and primed.
[Mia and Yuri look around, terrified as the countdown from 100 begins. The Doctor is using the sonic screwdriver on Gadget’s computer.]
D: Blast off!
[Fire jets from Gadget’s feet as the Doctor bounds around in frustration.]
D: Faster!
[Gadget flies across the ground, leaving a short trail of fire and then one of dust.
Maggie continues to wail as deep rifts appear in the glacier. The converted members of the crew stand in a line, absorbing the water that is falling on them, raising their arms.
In Section H, explosions continue to rock the room, throwing Adelaide to the floor.
Gadget arrives at the TARDIS.]
Computer: Nuclear device entering final process.
[Yuri uses an extinguisher to put out a fire in the ceiling.
The Doctor uses the gloves to open the TARDIS.
The timer on the warheads is counting down from 45 seconds.]
D [triumphant]: And we’re in!
[Adelaide looks up at the Doctor and shakes her head.
He looks at her and gives a manic grin. Her expression in response is sad, disapproving.]
G: Gadget-gadget.
[With the Doctor remote-starting it, the TARDIS groans into life.
The counter is at 24 seconds.
The Doctor steps forward proudly, confidently, as the TARDIS materialises in the room.
The counter is at 8 seconds.
Everyone watches the TARDIS materialise.
The counter counts down to zero and Bowie Base One explodes.
The image that the Doctor saw in his mind of a planet with a small object closing in on it is repeated. The object looks like a satellite and continues to orbit Mars.
The TARDIS materialises on a snow-covered street. The door opens and the Doctor, dressed in his brown coat, steps out.
The Doctor walks down the street, waiting, before turning to face the TARDIS. Adelaide leaves first. Mia almost runs behind her, clearly afraid of the TARDIS. She’s in tears. The Doctor looks from her to the others.
Yuri stares, dazed, and staggers away from the TARDIS.]
D: Isn’t anyone going to thank me?
[Gadget rolls along the street and then shuts down.]
D: He’s lost his signal. Doesn’t know where he is.
AB: That’s my house.
D [frustrated]: Don’t you get it? This is the 21st of November, 2059. Same day – on Earth. And it’s snowing! I love snow.
MB [pointing at the TARDIS, looking tired and upset]: What is that thing? It’s… bigger… I mean… bigger on the inside. [stares at the Doctor] Who the hell are you?
[She stares at the others before starting to run away. Yuri steps towards her before looking back at Adelaide.]
AB: Look after her.
YK: Yes, ma’am.
[Yuri takes off after Mia.]
[The Doctor looks at Adelaide, clearly waiting for her response.]
AB [questioningly]: You saved us?
[The Doctor strides – almost struts – towards her.]
D [grinning]: Just think though. Your daughter and your daughter’s daughter – you can see them again. [small smile, as Adelaide shakes her head] Family reunion.
AB: But I’m supposed to be dead.
D [shaking his head, still smiling smugly]: Not anymore.
AB [as if the words are difficult for her]: But – Susie, my granddaughter – the person she’s supposed to become might never exist now.
D [exhales sigh]: Nah. Captain Adelaide can inspire her face-to-face. Different details, but the story’s the same.
AB [impatiently, trying to interrupt, trying to show him]: You can’t know that! And if my family changes [pause] the whole of history could change! [the Doctor loses his smirk] The future of the human race – no one should have that much power!
D [grimly]: Tough.
[Adelaide takes several paces back, afraid, shock evident on her face.]
AB [in tones of realisation]: You should have left us there.
D [justifying, hurried]: Adelaide, I’ve done this sort of thing before. [waggles head around] In small waves, saved some little people. But never someone as important as you. Ooh, I’m good.
AB [indignant]: Little people?! [angry] What, like Mia and Yuri? [furious] Who decides they’re so unimportant – you?
D [getting angry]: For a long time now, I thought I was just a survivor, but I’m not. I’m the winner. That’s who I am. Time Lord Victorious.
[Adelaide recoils slightly, fear and understanding on her face.]
AB [warily]: And there’s no one to stop you.
D [overemphasising]: No.
AB [positive]: This is wrong, Doctor. I don’t care who you are. The Time Lord Victorious is wrong.
D [cold]: That’s for me to decide. [long pause, then, lightly but with somewhat false enthusiasm] Now, you’d better get home. Oh, it’s all locked up. [reaches into pocket for sonic screwdriver] You’ve been away. Still, that’s easy.
[The Doctor points sonic at the door so it unlocks, his face still grim, elements of the Oncoming Storm, almost childishly unhappy at having been contradicted.
The door swings open.]
D [putting sonic away, his voice too light]: All yours.
AB [as she walks past him, still wary and a bit frightened]: Is there nothing you can’t do?
D [firmly]: Not anymore.
[Adelaide walks up to the front door, touches it and then turns back to look at the Doctor. She watches him turn towards the TARDIS and begin walking away from her. As he goes, she pulls her gun out of her holster and then enters the house. The shot switches between Adelaide going inside and the Doctor approaching his TARDIS, hands in his pocket, clearly still angry at having been questioned and basking in his new-found power. Quiet classical music is played rather than sounds behind audible. The Doctor reaches the TARDIS at the same moment as Adelaide closes the door of her house. A blue light flashes in the window of her home and an electrical crackle is audible. The Doctor stops sharply and abruptly turns back.
The screen shows the Obituary for Captain Adelaide Brooke with her date of death – 2059.
As the Doctor slumps back against the TARDIS, horror and pain showing on his face, another screen shows Adelaide’s location of death as listed in her obituary changing from Mars to Earth. As the music changes to the Ood song of captivity, another article flashes up on the screen, which shows Mia and Yuri explaining how Adelaide saved Earth.
The Doctor seems to struggle for breath as the full realisation of what just happened hits him.
Another article shows that Adelaide’s granddaughter, Susie Fontana Brooke, inspired by her grandmother’s actions, does become the pilot of a lightspeed ship.
The Doctor’s face becomes twisted with pain as he stares, wide-eyed, at the windows of Adelaide’s living room. An echo of her words is audible.]
AB [faintly]: I don’t care who you are. The Time Lord Victorious is wrong.
[The Doctor turns suddenly, as if he hears something, and stares at something further down the street.]
D [breathless]: I’ve gone too far.
[Ood Sigma is shown beneath a lamppost. The Doctor drops to his knees beside the TARDIS, one hand touching the wood, as if for support.]
D [his voice hoarse]: Is this it? [tearful] My death?
[Ood Sigma merely moves his head slightly, saying nothing.]
D [his voice rising in volume]: Is it time?
[Ood Sigma vanishes.
The Doctor stands and turns back to Adelaide’s home, his eyes wide and face full of fear, fishing in his pocket for his key. He unlocks the TARDIS with urgency, almost as if he’s too afraid to stay on the street any longer, and takes one final look over his shoulder before going inside.
Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor stands at his usual place at the console, staring blankly at the controls. The Cloister bell begins to ring.]
D [determined]: No!
[He urgently begins manipulating the controls and the TARDIS takes off.]
[In the medical dome, Yuri and Ed are watching Maggie. Adelaide and the Doctor burst in.]
AB: Has that door got a Hardinger seal?
EG: No, just basic.
AB: Well, the moment she heads for the door, we evacuate, got that?
EG [turning to medical monitor]: Pulse is low. Electrical activity in the brain seems to be going haywire.
AB: Can she talk?
YK: I don’t know. She was talking before we noted the change, but…
AB: Maggie, can you hear me? Do you know who I am? [Maggie turns to look at the Doctor] Your commanding officer, Captain Adelaide Brooke. Can you tell me what happened?
[The Doctor begins speaking in an alien tongue. Maggie stares at him, even more wide-eyed than before.]
EG: What language is that?
D: Ancient North Martian.
AB: Don’t be ridiculous.
EG: It’s like she recognised it.
D: And her eyes are different. They’re clear, like she’s closer to human.
EG [mumbles]: Not close enough for me.
D: Where d’you get your water from?
AB: The ice field. That’s why we chose the crater – we’re on top of an underground glacier.
D [nodding]: Tons of water. Marvellous.
YK: But every single drop is filtered, it’s clean, it’s safe.
D [nodding at Maggie]: Looks like it, yeah.
EG: If something was frozen down there... A viral life form, held in the ice for all those years.
D: Look at her mouth. It’s all blackened, like some sort of fission. This thing, whatever it is, doesn’t just hide in water, it creates water. [to Maggie] Tell me what you want.
KY: She was looking at the screen – at Earth. She wanted Earth. A world full of water.
EG: Captain, with me.
[Adelaide and Ed cross to the other side of the room. The Doctor glances one more time at Maggie and then moves in an attempt to hear what’s being said. Ed looks at him suspiciously before speaking.]
EG: I’m sorry, but it’s an unknown infection and it’s spreading. That demands an action procedure one.
AB: You think I don’t know that?
EG [coldly]: I think you need reminding.
AB [tiredly, nodding]: Yeah.
EG: Well, at least I’m good for something.
AB [lightly]: Now and again.
EG [half-smile]: That’s almost a compliment. Things must be serious.
[They exchange smiles.]
D [coming over]: Sorry, sorry. Action one, that means evacuation, yeah?
AB [nodding]: We’re going home. This is Captain Brooke. I am declaring action one. Repeat, all crew members this is action one with immediate effect. [an alarm begins to sound] Evacuate the base.
[In the control room, everyone springs into action.]
SE: Outstall central computer. Mia, strip the cargo down to essentials. Roman, on your feet!
RG [sitting on the floor next to Gadget]: But we came all this way…
G: Gadget-gadget.
SE: And you can kiss that robot goodbye. It’s too heavy. Now shove it in storage and hurry up!
AB: Steffi, what’s your estimate on shuttle viability?
SE: A nine-month flight – it’ll take us at least three hours to load up everything we need.
AB: You’ve got twenty minutes! And give me a report on Andy and Tarak.
ST [looking at screen that shows Andy and Tarak staring at the camera]: Still in the bio-dome tunnel. They’re just standing there, like they’re waiting.
AB: Keep an eye on them. And make that twenty minutes fifteen.
[The Doctor is standing close to the room where Maggie is confined. His expression suggests that this process is a huge mistake.]
AB: Ed, fire up the shuttle. Go straight to ignition status.
EG: Doing it now!
YK: What about Maggie?
AB: She stays behind. We’ve got no way to contain her on board. Close this place down. I want the power directed to the shuttle.
D: Of course, the only problem is…
AB: Thank you, Doctor. Your space suit will be returned and good luck to you.
D: The problem is, this thing is clever. It didn’t infect the birds or the insects in the bio-dome. It chose the humans. You were chosen. And I told you, Adelaide, water can wait. Tarak changed straight away, but when Maggie was infected, it stayed hidden inside her. No doubt so it could infiltrate the central dome. Which means…
AB: Any one of us could already be infected. [pause] We’ve all been drinking the same water.
D: And if you take that back to Earth… One drop. Just one drop.
AB [desperate]: But… we’re only presuming infection. If we can find out how this thing got through – when it got through… [moving away from the Doctor] Yuri, continue with action one. I’m going to inspect the ice field.
D [as Yuri continues to pack]: Right, I should leave. Finally, I should leave. Yuri, me old mate, no point me seeing the ice field. [softly] No point at all. No.
[Leaning against the cupboard, though, the Doctor is clearly uncomfortable at the thought of leaving and is making no effort to go, although he is obviously trying to talk himself into it mentally. He bangs his head back against the cupboard twice before running out of the room.]
D: Adelaide!
[He runs after her in the tunnel, catching up to her.]
D [lightly]: All I’m saying is – bikes! Little fold-away bikes. Don’t weigh a thing.
[Yuri wheels a trolley out of the room and then stops and looks back at Maggie, who is watching him with a pleading look on her face.]
YK: I’m sorry.
[He presses a button that cuts off power in the room, leaving it bathed in a red glow. The door seals and then Maggie moves towards the door of the glassed-in isolation room. She fuses the lock and the door sparks.]
RG: Even if she passes the medical dome, she’s never get past the Hardinger seal at this end, right?
EG: So we keep saying.
[They watch as the door continues to spark, and then the screen goes back.]
EG: Camera’s down. [pause] We’ve lost her.
[In the red-lit room, the door of the isolation chamber opens and Maggie steps out into the infirmary.
She screams, a horrible wail, and Andy and Tarak look down from the camera and turn their heads in unison, as if in response. They turn and begin walking back down the corridor towards the bio-dome.
The Doctor and Adelaide are crossing an open space. They end up looking down on a huge sheet of ice]
D: They tell legends of Mars from long ago. The fine and noble race that built an empire out of snow. The ice warriors.
AB: I haven’t got time for stories.
D: Perhaps they found something down there. Used their might and their wisdom to freeze it.
AB: Doctor, we need to find any sort of change in the water process. We’ve got to date the infection.
[The Doctor begins tapping in to the computer.]
Computer: Access denied.
[He continues tapping things on the screen. Adelaide glances at him from time to time.]
AB: You don’t look like a coward. But all you've wanted to do is leave. [sideways glance] You know so much about us.
D [trying to be casual]: Well, you’re famous.
AB [wary]: It’s like you know more.
D [gives in, speaking with difficulty, trying to find a way to say things without giving it all away]: This moment, this precise moment in time, it’s like – I mean, it’s only a theory, what do I know, but, I think certain moments in time are fixed. Tiny, precious moments. Anything else is in flux. Anything can happen. But those certain moments, they have to stand. This base on Mars, with you, Adelaide Brooke – this is one vital moment. What happens here must always happen.
AB [tense, frightened, but covering it]: Which is what?
D [shakes head]: I don’t know.
[There’s an uncomfortable pause. The Doctor clearly wants to give her some form of comfort.]
D: I think something wonderful happens. Something that started fifty years ago – isn’t that right?
AB [turns to him, really scared now]: I’ve never told anyone that.
D: You told your daughter. And maybe, one day, she tells the story to her daughter. Of the day the Earth was stolen and moved across the Universe. And you…
[Adelaide stares at him. How does he know? And yet he clearly does and she’s willing to go on and tell him more.]
AB: I saw the Daleks. [pause] We looked up. The sky had changed. Everyone was running and screaming. And my father took hold of me…
[Flashback, a man takes a girl into a bedroom. He kneels in front of her and she stares into his eyes.]
Adelaide’s father: Stay here. Don’t move. I’ve got to go out. I’m going to find your mother. But I’m coming back. I promise you. I’m coming back…
[He kisses her forehead, strokes her hair and then leaves the room, leaving Adelaide kneeling on a white rug. She stands up.]
AB: I never saw him again. Nor my mother. They were never found. But out on the streets, there was panic and burning. I went to the window…
[She crosses to a window in the ceiling of what is presumably an attic room, where a Dalek can be seen descending.]
AB: And there, in the sky, I saw it, Doctor. And it saw me.
[The Dalek’s eye-stalk swivels around to face Adelaide.]
AB: It stared at me. It looked right into me. And then…
[The Dalek suddenly turns around and flies away.]
AB [half-smiling, tears in her eyes]: It simply went away. I knew, that night, I knew I would follow it.
D: But not for revenge?
AB: What would be the point of that?
D [smiling – she’s like him!]: That’s what makes you remarkable. And that’s how you create history.
AB: What d’you mean?
D [moves to face her]: Imagine it, Adelaide. If you began a journey that takes the human race all the way out to the stars. It begins with you. And then your granddaughter – you inspire her! So that, in thirty years, Susie Fontana Brooke is the pilot of the first light speed ship to Proxima Centauri.
[A flash shows another article, this time with the heading ‘Susie Fontana Brooke: First Lightspeed Ship – Proud Heritage.’]
D: And then everywhere, with her children and her children’s children forging away to the Dragon Star, the Celestial Belt of the Winter Queen, the Map of the Water Snake Wormholes. One day a Brooke will even fall in love with a Tandonian prince, and that’s the start of a whole new species. But everything all starts with you, Adelaide. From fifty years ago to right here, today. [softly] Imagine.
AB [sad and suspicious]: Who are you? [pause] Why are you telling me this? Doctor? Why tell me?
D [pained whisper]: As consolation.
[The computer suddenly springs into life, putting up a profile of one of the crew members.]
AB: Andy Stone. He logged on yesterday.
AS [video footage]: Maintenance log, 21:20, November 20, 2059. Number three water filter’s bust. [showing filter] And guess what. The spares they sent don’t fit. What a surprise. Over and out.
D: A filter! One tiny little filter and then the Flood!
AB: But that means the infection arrived today and the water’s only cycled out of the bio-dome after a week. The rest of us can’t be infected. We can leave! [on comm.] Ed, we’re clean, how’re we doing?
EG: Shuttle’s active, stage one.
[The lights on the shuttle support grid slowly begin to light up.]
EG: I haven’t got time to convey the protein packs. If you want food, you’re going to have to carry it by hand. Start loading – right now!
[The remaining crew – Mia, Yuri, Roman and Steffi – scatter on the order, carrying large containers filled with items to the trolleys.
Meanwhile Adelaide and the Doctor are running down the hallway back to the control room.]
AB: You were right, Doctor.
D: What about?
AB [smiles]: Bikes!
[The Doctor chuckles. As everyone in the control room packs, Adelaide hands the Doctor his suit.]
AB: Now get to your ship. I’m saving my people, you save yourself. I know what this moment is – it’s the moment we escape. Now get out!
[The Doctor, clutching his suit, stares after her, pain on his face as he watches the crew packing, knowing the truth about what is actually happening, what this moment really is. There is an undercurrent of conversation from the crew.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the base, Tarak is climbing a ladder, water spilling from his mouth. He and Andy end up on top of the building. An alarm is sounding, getting louder every few seconds. The Doctor’s eyes travel from the computers to the ceiling. He says nothing, makes no effort to alert them to what’s happening.
As preparations for packing continue, with efforts being made to lighten the ship as much as possible, Andy and Tarak drop to their knees and place their hands on the ground, which is actually the roof of the building. Finally Adelaide notices the alarm.]
AB: What the hell is noise? Mia, you lot, shut up!
EG: It’s the module sensors. Exterior twelve. The cameras are down, but there’s pressure on top of the module. Two signals, right above us.
SE [frightened, voice shaking]: That means…
[She looks up. Cut to the Doctor, also eying the ceiling.]
SE: …they’re on the roof?
[Water begins seeping from beneath Andy and Tarak’s hands in an ever-increasing pool. It pours from their mouths like hoses.]
RG: How did they get inside the dome?
EG: They used the maintenance shafts.
MB: The shaft’s open and they haven’t got spacesuits.
[Mia and Yuri take hands.]
EG: They breathe water.
[The Doctor is simply standing there, looking almost as devastated as when he had to take Donna’s memories away.]
SE: They’ll freeze.
YK: They’ve got that internal fission.
MB: We’re safe. They can’t get through, can they?
[There is a creaking, grinding sound, as if a material is being broken down. No one speaks.]
MB: Can they?
[Water is leaking through the various ventilation pipes.]
RG [shaking his head]: This place is airtight.
SE: Can they get through? Ed? Can they get through?
EG: I don’t know. The water itself is immotile, but it has some sort of persistence.
AB: Everyone, listen to me. That’s ten feet of steel combination up there. We’ll need all the protein packs or we’re gonna starve. Now keep working. Roman [taps his arm] watch the ceiling. Ed, get to the shuttle. Fire it up.
EG: I can carry more than this lot can!
AB [yells]: That’s an order!
EG [half-grin]: Captain!
[The Doctor has a flash to the newspaper article about the destruction of the base in a nuclear blast.
He simply stands there and watches these people trying to work out ways to survive. No one looks at him, except for one final glance from Adelaide as he finally convinces himself to leave. He doesn’t even turn back for a last look.
Ed runs down the hallway towards the shuttle. The Doctor, now in the spacesuit, steps into the airlock to leave. He presses the button to have the door opened.]
Computer: Access denied. Access denied.
[Adelaide suddenly speaks through the comm. in his suit]
AB: Tell me what happens.
D: I don’t know.
AB: Yes, you do. Now tell me.
D: You should be with the others.
AB [angry]: Tell me!
[He remains silent. Adelaide looks down for a moment, making a decision.]
AB: I could ramp up the pressure in that airlock and crush you.
D: Except you won’t. You could have shot Andy Stone, but you didn’t. I loved you for that. [pause] Imagine…
[There’s a terrible, painful moment of silence. The Doctor is fighting within himself as to how much to tell her, and Adelaide is waiting for him to continue. He finally gives in.]
D: Imagine you knew something. Imagine you found yourself somewhere – I don’t know, Pompeii! Imagine you were in Pompeii…
AB: What the hell’s that got to do with it?
D: And you try to save them, but in doing so, you make it happen.
[He looks so tired and so sorry.]
D: Anything I do just makes it happen.
[The door behind Adelaide opens.]
SE: Captain, we need you right now!
[She leaves again without Adelaide getting out of her chair.]
AB: I’m still here.
[The Doctor breathes deeply and briefly closes his eyes.]
D [turns to camera]: You’re taking action one.
[She changes the view on the screen so that, rather than four different views as it was before, his face fills it, staring at her.]
D: There are four more standard action procedures, and action five is…
AB: Detonation.
D: The final option. The nuclear device at the heart of the central dome. Today, on the 21st of November, 2059, Captain Brooke activates that device, taking the base and all her crew members with her. No one ever knows why. But you were saving Earth. That’s what inspires your granddaughter. She takes your people out into the galaxy because you die on Mars. You die today. She flies out there, like she’s trying to meet you.
AB [shocked, horrified, terrified, tears in her eyes, her voice a whisper]: I won’t die. [determined, always in control of her destiny] I will not!
D: But your death creates the future.
[There’s a long, painful pause.]
AB: Help me.
[The Doctor remains silent.]
AB: Why won’t you help, Doctor, if you know all this, why can’t you change it?
D [shaking his head]: I can’t. Adelaide, I’m aware. I can’t.
AB [speaking over him]: Why can’t you find a way? Tell me. I don’t know.
D [silencing her]: I’m sorry, but I can’t! Sometimes I can. Sometimes I do. Most times I can save someone or anyone. But not you. You’ve wondered all your life why that Dalek spared you. I think it knew! Your death is fixed in time. Forever. And that’s right.
AB: You die, too?
D: No.
AB: What’s gonna save you?
D: Captain Adelaide Brooke.
[She stares at him, understanding, but so angry at the choice she has to make, and finally presses the button that will release him from the airlock.]
AB [softly]: Damn you.
RG: Water! We’ve got water
MB: Get back! Get away! Get back! Captain! Don’t touch it! Get away! Don’t let it touch you!
[Adelaide runs into the room to find water running from the ceiling.]
AB: Everyone, we’re abandoning this section. Get to the shuttle. Yuri, lead the way. Section B corridor now!
[Yuri opens a door, only to find water pouring down on the supplies.]
AB: Close it!
SE: Yuri! Lock the door behind you! Did it touch you? Yuri! Did the water touch you?
YK: I’m clean! I’m dry!
AB: Everyone, section B is out! Listen to me, take every pack that you can. We’ll go around by Section F.
[The Doctor is able to hear all of this by the comm. that Adelaide left connected.]
SE: Transferring oxygen stations to Section F. Mia, you take the red-line stocks.
AB: And hurry up!
[Suddenly one of the panels in the ceiling gives, allowing a huge wall of water to fall, which block Steffi off from the rest of the crew.
YK: Steffi, komm!
MB: Steffi, get back!
AB: Get back!
[The Doctor hears the sound and closes his eyes, fighting his urge to stay and to leave.
The water continues to move, pushing Steffi back into the small communications room.]
RG: Shut the door! Close the door!
[Steffi closes the door, trapping herself in the room.]
AB: Steffi, we’ll come and get you, okay?
RG: We’ll come get you! Steffi!
SE [crying and screaming]: Captain!
AB: We’ll open the exit panel, we’ll get you out from the back!
SE [screaming]: Captain, it’s inside!
AB: Steffi!
MB: Steffi! Get back!
AB: Steffi! I’m coming! Hold on!
[The Doctor opens the external door and walks out of the base, still able to hear what is happening inside.]
RG: The exit panel’s fused, Captain. We can’t open it.
[Steffi gives a shuddering scream.]
YK: We can’t get through!
SE [half-screaming]: Don't, please, I can't move.
[The Doctor walks away. Steffi, pressed up against the screen, activates the communication panel to show footage of her daughter.]
Lisette Ehrlich: Hallo, Mutti! Hallo, Mars! [turns to her sister] Ulrike, sag’ hallo. Pappi sagt er fährt uns mit über das Wochenende… [Translation: Hello, Mummy, hello Mars. Ulrike, say hello. Dad says he’s going to take us away over the weekend…]
[As Steffi watches, the water finally breaks in and begins soaking into her. She breaks down in tears, sobbing helplessly as her daughter continues to speak.
The Doctor listens to the child’s messages as he walks away.]
AB: Steffi! Can you hear me?
[Steffi is convulsing, just as the others did.]
MB: Oh, my God!
[The Doctor continues to walk away.]
AB: Out, get out.
[Steffi, converted by the Flood, steps out of the communications chamber.]
AB: Ed, we’re going round the long way. How’re we doing?
EG: All systems are live 100%, not a single delay. Don’t you worry, Captain, we are gonna fly!
[The jets of the shuttle fire up as the Doctor walks away from Bowie Base One.]
AB: We need air in Section F right now, all of you!
YK: Locking chamber three. Locking chamber four.
RG: Gate five is open! Gate six is open!
[Roman walks into a room and looks up at the ceiling, just as a drop falls down, hitting his cheek just below his eye, like a tear.]
AB: Roman, come on, with me!
RG: You better go.
AB: Don’t just stand there, move!
RG: You really better go without me. I’m sorry, Captain. [nodding shakily, just on the verge of tears] One drop.
[The Doctor closes his eyes in pain. Roman begins convulsing.]
MB: Roman! Roman!
[Yuri grabs her and drags her away as Adelaide watches, stony-faced.
The Doctor continues to walk.]
YK: Leave him! Come on!
MB: We can’t just leave him!
YK: Come on!
MB: Let me go! Roman!
YK: I'm so sorry.
[Adelaide turns away and follows the others.
On the shuttle, Ed is getting things ready when a door suddenly opens. He reaches out to press a button as Maggie appears below him. She sprays a jet of water up through the opening, soaking him before the wall can close.]
EG [in pain]: Captain, the shuttle is down.
AB: What the hell do you mean?
EG: Compromised. It was Maggie.
AB: Get out of there!
EG [grunting]: Too late. They want this ship to get to Earth. Got no choice. [presses destruct sequence] Hated it, Adelaide! Oh, this bloody job! Never gave me a chance. [reaching for button] You never could forgive me.
[Ed’s eyes have changed to white.]
EG [with a massive effort]: See you later.
[He presses the button and the shuttle and stand explode in a fireball. The ground shakes, throwing Mia, Yuri and Adelaide to the floor. The Doctor is thrown forward by the force of the blast. Air is sucked out of the building, fuelling the blast.]
YK: We’re losing oxygen! The hull is broken!
[The Doctor is lying on the ground, surrounded by flaming debris from the shuttle. Everything seems to be happening in slow motion.]
Flashback to his words to Martha in Gridlock: I’m not just a Time Lord; I’m the last of the Time Lords.
[He stands amid the fire.]
dFlashback to his words to Donna in The Doctor’s Daughter: It’ll never come back. Not now.
Flashback to his words to Rose in Doomsday: Time Lord, TARDIS, same old life. Last of the Time Lords.
Flashback to his words in Rise of the Cybermen: When they died, took it all with them. When the walls of reality closed, the worlds were sealed.
Flashback to his words to Donna in The Doctor’s Daughter: Gone forever.
Flashback to his words to Rose in Doomsday: Time Lords kept their eye on everything.
Flashback to his words to Donna in The Doctor’s Daughter: Only, it’s gone now, all of it.
Flashback to his words to Martha in Utopia: But they died, the Time Lords. All of them, they died.
Flashback to his words to Martha in Smith and Jones: I’m the last of the Time Lords.
[He walks towards the base. He steps in through the airlock, which glows blue around him, having removed his helmet.
He strides in as if he owns the place.]
D [throwing a tube to her]: Mia, take this sealant, fix that leak! Yuri, open emergency oxygen. Adelaide [offering hand to her] don’t just sit there!
[As he pulls her to her feet, Mia fixes the leak and the room becomes quieter without the rushing air.]
D: That’s better! The dome’s still got integrity. Ten feet of steel combination, made in Liverpool, magnificent workmanship!
AB: It can’t be stopped! Don’t die with us!
D [triumphant, verging on crazy]: No, ‘cos someone told me just recently, they said I was going to die. They said ‘he will knock four times’. And I think I know what that means, and it doesn’t mean right here, right now, ‘cos I don’t hear anyone knocking, do you?
[As if in reply, there is a loud knock on the door. The Doctor steps back, clearly frightened, as a second and then a third knock sounds. He looks around to see Andy on the other side of the door. By the last knock, though, the Doctor has made up his mind.]
D: Three knocks is all you’re getting!
[He turns to the computer system and sends power through the door, electrocuting Andy before he can knock again.]
D: Water and electricity – bad mix! Now then what else have we got?
[Mia is looking anxious, Yuri is very happy.]
AB: But there’s no way to fight them!
D: Heat! They use water – we can use heat! Works against the ice warriors, works against the Flood. Ramp up the environment controls and steam them!
AB [trying to stop him]: But you said we die!
[The room is suddenly jolted and everyone nearly loses their footing.]
AB: For the future, for the human race!
D [hurriedly, perhaps if he says this with enough authority, it will be true]: Yes, but there are laws. There are laws of time. Once upon a time there were people in charge of those laws, but they died. They all died. [hysterical with grief, rage and the desire to be able to change this situation the way he wants to] Do you know who that leaves? - ME! It's taken me all these years to realise the laws of time are mine! AND THEY WILL OBEY ME!
[An explosion throws him to the floor. Alarms sound and, as things fall to the floor, Adelaide dashes to a computer.]
AB: Environment controls are down. Sorry, Doctor, it looks like history’s got other ideas!
D [desperate]: I’m not beaten yet. I’ll go outside! Thermic heat regulator! [picks up his helmet only to find that pieces have been broken out of it and it’s no longer usable; he throws it away in fury] Not beaten, not beaten! You've got space suits. In the next section!
[He ducks into the hallway, to find water pouring down. He runs back into the room.]
D [furious and crazed]: We’re not just fighting the Flood. We’re fighting time itself, and I’m gonna win!
[Maggie is standing above the frozen ice. She lets out a high-pitched moan that causes the ice to begin to crack.]
YK [typing furiously]: Something is happening to the glacier!
D [rubbing head]: Think, think, think, think – what have we got? Not enough oxygen. [opens container] Protein packs – useless! Glacier, glacier mints, minty, monty, molto bene, bonny, bish bash – aargh! Look, look, look at the room! Section H – what’s in Section H?
[No one answers.]
D [screaming]: Anyone?!
YK: Nothing – it is just storage!
D: Storing what?
YK: I don’t know – the weather spikes, the robot, atom clamps…
D [opening cupboard]: Atom clamps? Atom clamps! Who needs atom clamps! I have a funny robot!
[He tears off the cupboard door to reveal Gadget.]
G: Gadget-gadget.
[Maggie continues to wail as the ice breaks.
The Doctor fixes his TARDIS key to Gadget’s hand.]
D: You take that – good boy!
G: Gadget-gadget.
[He puts on the auto gloves and prepares to activate Gadget, even as the room continues to crumble around them.]
D: Off we go then!
G: Gadget-gadget.
[Adelaide rolls her eyes as Gadget begins to move and turns to the computer, preparing to activate action five. Gadget trundles slowly through the water.]
D [waving arms]: Come on, come on!
Computer: Implementing Captain’s protocol.
D: Adelaide! What are you doing?
MB: Action five?
D [warningly]: If I have to fight you as well, then I will!
Computer: Nuclear device now active and primed.
[Mia and Yuri look around, terrified as the countdown from 100 begins. The Doctor is using the sonic screwdriver on Gadget’s computer.]
D: Blast off!
[Fire jets from Gadget’s feet as the Doctor bounds around in frustration.]
D: Faster!
[Gadget flies across the ground, leaving a short trail of fire and then one of dust.
Maggie continues to wail as deep rifts appear in the glacier. The converted members of the crew stand in a line, absorbing the water that is falling on them, raising their arms.
In Section H, explosions continue to rock the room, throwing Adelaide to the floor.
Gadget arrives at the TARDIS.]
Computer: Nuclear device entering final process.
[Yuri uses an extinguisher to put out a fire in the ceiling.
The Doctor uses the gloves to open the TARDIS.
The timer on the warheads is counting down from 45 seconds.]
D [triumphant]: And we’re in!
[Adelaide looks up at the Doctor and shakes her head.
He looks at her and gives a manic grin. Her expression in response is sad, disapproving.]
G: Gadget-gadget.
[With the Doctor remote-starting it, the TARDIS groans into life.
The counter is at 24 seconds.
The Doctor steps forward proudly, confidently, as the TARDIS materialises in the room.
The counter is at 8 seconds.
Everyone watches the TARDIS materialise.
The counter counts down to zero and Bowie Base One explodes.
The image that the Doctor saw in his mind of a planet with a small object closing in on it is repeated. The object looks like a satellite and continues to orbit Mars.
The TARDIS materialises on a snow-covered street. The door opens and the Doctor, dressed in his brown coat, steps out.
The Doctor walks down the street, waiting, before turning to face the TARDIS. Adelaide leaves first. Mia almost runs behind her, clearly afraid of the TARDIS. She’s in tears. The Doctor looks from her to the others.
Yuri stares, dazed, and staggers away from the TARDIS.]
D: Isn’t anyone going to thank me?
[Gadget rolls along the street and then shuts down.]
D: He’s lost his signal. Doesn’t know where he is.
AB: That’s my house.
D [frustrated]: Don’t you get it? This is the 21st of November, 2059. Same day – on Earth. And it’s snowing! I love snow.
MB [pointing at the TARDIS, looking tired and upset]: What is that thing? It’s… bigger… I mean… bigger on the inside. [stares at the Doctor] Who the hell are you?
[She stares at the others before starting to run away. Yuri steps towards her before looking back at Adelaide.]
AB: Look after her.
YK: Yes, ma’am.
[Yuri takes off after Mia.]
[The Doctor looks at Adelaide, clearly waiting for her response.]
AB [questioningly]: You saved us?
[The Doctor strides – almost struts – towards her.]
D [grinning]: Just think though. Your daughter and your daughter’s daughter – you can see them again. [small smile, as Adelaide shakes her head] Family reunion.
AB: But I’m supposed to be dead.
D [shaking his head, still smiling smugly]: Not anymore.
AB [as if the words are difficult for her]: But – Susie, my granddaughter – the person she’s supposed to become might never exist now.
D [exhales sigh]: Nah. Captain Adelaide can inspire her face-to-face. Different details, but the story’s the same.
AB [impatiently, trying to interrupt, trying to show him]: You can’t know that! And if my family changes [pause] the whole of history could change! [the Doctor loses his smirk] The future of the human race – no one should have that much power!
D [grimly]: Tough.
[Adelaide takes several paces back, afraid, shock evident on her face.]
AB [in tones of realisation]: You should have left us there.
D [justifying, hurried]: Adelaide, I’ve done this sort of thing before. [waggles head around] In small waves, saved some little people. But never someone as important as you. Ooh, I’m good.
AB [indignant]: Little people?! [angry] What, like Mia and Yuri? [furious] Who decides they’re so unimportant – you?
D [getting angry]: For a long time now, I thought I was just a survivor, but I’m not. I’m the winner. That’s who I am. Time Lord Victorious.
[Adelaide recoils slightly, fear and understanding on her face.]
AB [warily]: And there’s no one to stop you.
D [overemphasising]: No.
AB [positive]: This is wrong, Doctor. I don’t care who you are. The Time Lord Victorious is wrong.
D [cold]: That’s for me to decide. [long pause, then, lightly but with somewhat false enthusiasm] Now, you’d better get home. Oh, it’s all locked up. [reaches into pocket for sonic screwdriver] You’ve been away. Still, that’s easy.
[The Doctor points sonic at the door so it unlocks, his face still grim, elements of the Oncoming Storm, almost childishly unhappy at having been contradicted.
The door swings open.]
D [putting sonic away, his voice too light]: All yours.
AB [as she walks past him, still wary and a bit frightened]: Is there nothing you can’t do?
D [firmly]: Not anymore.
[Adelaide walks up to the front door, touches it and then turns back to look at the Doctor. She watches him turn towards the TARDIS and begin walking away from her. As he goes, she pulls her gun out of her holster and then enters the house. The shot switches between Adelaide going inside and the Doctor approaching his TARDIS, hands in his pocket, clearly still angry at having been questioned and basking in his new-found power. Quiet classical music is played rather than sounds behind audible. The Doctor reaches the TARDIS at the same moment as Adelaide closes the door of her house. A blue light flashes in the window of her home and an electrical crackle is audible. The Doctor stops sharply and abruptly turns back.
The screen shows the Obituary for Captain Adelaide Brooke with her date of death – 2059.
As the Doctor slumps back against the TARDIS, horror and pain showing on his face, another screen shows Adelaide’s location of death as listed in her obituary changing from Mars to Earth. As the music changes to the Ood song of captivity, another article flashes up on the screen, which shows Mia and Yuri explaining how Adelaide saved Earth.
The Doctor seems to struggle for breath as the full realisation of what just happened hits him.
Another article shows that Adelaide’s granddaughter, Susie Fontana Brooke, inspired by her grandmother’s actions, does become the pilot of a lightspeed ship.
The Doctor’s face becomes twisted with pain as he stares, wide-eyed, at the windows of Adelaide’s living room. An echo of her words is audible.]
AB [faintly]: I don’t care who you are. The Time Lord Victorious is wrong.
[The Doctor turns suddenly, as if he hears something, and stares at something further down the street.]
D [breathless]: I’ve gone too far.
[Ood Sigma is shown beneath a lamppost. The Doctor drops to his knees beside the TARDIS, one hand touching the wood, as if for support.]
D [his voice hoarse]: Is this it? [tearful] My death?
[Ood Sigma merely moves his head slightly, saying nothing.]
D [his voice rising in volume]: Is it time?
[Ood Sigma vanishes.
The Doctor stands and turns back to Adelaide’s home, his eyes wide and face full of fear, fishing in his pocket for his key. He unlocks the TARDIS with urgency, almost as if he’s too afraid to stay on the street any longer, and takes one final look over his shoulder before going inside.
Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor stands at his usual place at the console, staring blankly at the controls. The Cloister bell begins to ring.]
D [determined]: No!
[He urgently begins manipulating the controls and the TARDIS takes off.]
exhausted
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